Van Loon, Hans Keywords: Private international law | Development of international law | Globalization | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT This inaugural lecture starts with the development of private international law as nation-states appeared. It became “nationalized” even though globalization called upon a transnational perspective. Private international law has become increasingly complementary to regional and global public international law. While still focusing on private relationships, it is now linked to public interna…

Muir Watt, Horatia Keywords: Economy | Globalization | Private international law | Mots clefs: Economie | Mondialisation | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Professor Muir-Watt shows in her course that, because of economic globalization, private international law is at the same time subjected to a movement towards privatization and a movement towards politicization of disputes. The movement towards the privatization of international law results from national legislations that are made to compete and are subjected t…

Basedow, Jürgen Keywords: Private international law | Conflict of laws | Development of international law | Globalization | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT This course looks into private international law from a new perceptive, by first focusing on the actor of international areas, private as public and what are their common point. The goal is to understand how closed nation-States, by globalization, showed an evolution leading to open society. After that, different form of private ordering intended to reduce the risk of inter…

Enrique Alvarez, José Keywords: Foreign direct investment | Public international law | Legal regime | Economy | Globalization | Sovereignty | United States of America | Bilateral investment treaties | Argentina | Mots clefs: Investissements directs à l'étranger | Droit international public | Régime juridique | Economie | Mondialisation | Souveraineté | Etats-Unis d'Amérique | Traités bilatéraux d'investissement | Argentine | ABSTRACT This course considers the ramifications of the legal regime that governs transborder capital flows. This regime consists pri…

Salmon, Jean Keywords: States | Sovereignty | Competence | Globalization | Legal personality | Public international law | European Union | Mots clefs: Etats | Souveraineté | Compétence | Mondialisation | Personnalité juridique | Droit international public | Union européenne | ABSTRACT Jean Salmon, Professor Emeritus at the Université libre de Bruxelles, was convinced, while attending Paul Reuter’s doctoral course on international organizations in Paris in 1955, that the sovereign State was destined to disappear and would otherwise be re…